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    On The Outskirts

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    Authors
    Kinsella, John
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Book
    
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    Kinsella, J. 2017. On The Outskirts. QLD, Australia: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press.
    ISBN
    9780702260612
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67752
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding Tübingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the local and international are in constant flux and exchange, these poems consider the plight of refugees, the degradation of the natural world, militarisation and the tensions of global violence. As Kinsella contemplates the failure of public memory to memorialise and adequately face the horrors of the past, he reflects on the unresolved issues of history such as Nazism (Germany) and colonisation (Ireland and Australia). Influenced by William Blake's poetry and art, in particular Dante’s Divine Comedy, Kinsella evokes in his poems a strong relationship between the visual and textual. On the Outskirts is a work of strangeness and alienation, but also a work in which a light of redemption is sought — a rehabilitation in the human character and the healing power of 'nature'.

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